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19-02-2023, 01:53 PM
Graig Graziosi
Sun, 19 February 2023 at 10:59 am SGT
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I was already very familiar with the tiny Ohio village — I spent many hours there in my early and late teens visiting with my father and stepmother.
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On my second day in the village I noticed a truck pumping a four foot geyser of water out of a nearby creek. I stopped to ask what was going on. The driver of the truck grimaced and said "I can’t say. You’d have to ask Norfolk Southern." He gave me a phone number to call, so I called.
I explained where I was, what I saw, and asked what was going on. The man on the other end of the number told me "I have no idea." I asked again, adding even more detail.
"I have no idea." He asked no clarifying questions, offered no assurance that he would check and get back to me. He simply said he did not know, and that was that.
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regardless of where you land on the political spectrum — the one-two punch of the erroneously contested 2020 presidential election followed by the government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic has utterly shattered the public’s ability to trust anyone in power. That is to say nothing of Flint, Michigan, or Camp Lejeune, or Texas’ ERCOT, or the Uvalde police.
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There have been at least two more train derailments since the disaster in East Palestine. It is inevitable that there will be more disasters to come
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Americans need to trust the institutions put in place to protect them and assist them in times of crisis. But those institutions have a long road to walk to earn back that trust, if it’s even possible at this point.
Until then, the people in East Palestine — and Americans weathering crises around the country — will be left angry, scared, and utterly uncertain about their futures.
Better to read full article at: https://sg.news.yahoo.com/voices-went-ho...37384.html
Sun, 19 February 2023 at 10:59 am SGT
......
I was already very familiar with the tiny Ohio village — I spent many hours there in my early and late teens visiting with my father and stepmother.
......
On my second day in the village I noticed a truck pumping a four foot geyser of water out of a nearby creek. I stopped to ask what was going on. The driver of the truck grimaced and said "I can’t say. You’d have to ask Norfolk Southern." He gave me a phone number to call, so I called.
I explained where I was, what I saw, and asked what was going on. The man on the other end of the number told me "I have no idea." I asked again, adding even more detail.
"I have no idea." He asked no clarifying questions, offered no assurance that he would check and get back to me. He simply said he did not know, and that was that.
......
regardless of where you land on the political spectrum — the one-two punch of the erroneously contested 2020 presidential election followed by the government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic has utterly shattered the public’s ability to trust anyone in power. That is to say nothing of Flint, Michigan, or Camp Lejeune, or Texas’ ERCOT, or the Uvalde police.
......
There have been at least two more train derailments since the disaster in East Palestine. It is inevitable that there will be more disasters to come
......
Americans need to trust the institutions put in place to protect them and assist them in times of crisis. But those institutions have a long road to walk to earn back that trust, if it’s even possible at this point.
Until then, the people in East Palestine — and Americans weathering crises around the country — will be left angry, scared, and utterly uncertain about their futures.
Better to read full article at: https://sg.news.yahoo.com/voices-went-ho...37384.html
